Difa bans 3 errant members
MASERU – Three members of the Maseru District Football Association (Difa) interim committee were on Saturday banned for five years for allegedly bringing the game...
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Makoanyane XI date Saudi Arabia
MASERU – Lesotho’s Under-20 national team will lock horns with Saudi Arabia’s Under-23 national side in a friendly tie next month. The match is part...
Blatter approves goal-line technology
MASERU – Last week Fifa president Sepp Blatter gave the thumbs up to the idea of introducing goal-line technology in football. Blatter’s sentiments, which were...
MP beats up lover
MASERU — A Lesotho Workers Party (LWP) MP, Sello Machakela, is under police investigation for assaulting his lover. Machakela is married and has four children....
Police bust child sex syndicate
MASERU — Two women aged 23 and 25 years are in police custody for allegedly recruiting and trafficking young girls as sex workers. Police spokesperson...
PC FM in financial crisis
MASERU — Popular radio station People’s Choice FM (PC FM) is in a serious financial crunch because its bank accounts have been frozen. The four...
Youths take ex-minister to task over M600 000
MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth committee for the Stadium Area constituency wants former minister Lebohang Nts’inyi to account for a M600...
2010: Depressing year for Basotho
LAST year was one of the most depressing years in the history of development in Lesotho. The year began on a sad note with an...
Thakaso’s perjury claim thrown out
MASERU — Mohau Thakaso’s bid to have People’s Choice FM (PC FM) radio station managing director and eight others charged with perjury failed when the...
Hubby kills wife with spear
MASERU — A 25-year-old man from Hlotse killed his 22-year-old wife with a spear before attempting to commit suicide. The incident happened at the couple’s...
JC pass rate at 70 percent
MASERU — Thirty percent of all students who sat for the Junior Certificate exams last year failed, according to results released this week. Assistant Minister...
Another famo star shot dead
MASERU — Popular famo music producer Daniel Rampipi, 42, was shot dead by a lone gunman in Mafeteng last Thursday. The killing comes barely three...
Corrupt passport officer nabbed in sting operation
MASERU — It was a trap well-executed which saw a corrupt passport officer caught red-handed for soliciting a bribe. Tlalane Matamane had informed the police...
Diamond academy enrols first intake
MASERU — The Lesotho Diamonds Academy says it would train 50 Basotho men and women in the evaluation, marking, classification, cutting and polishing of rough...
Lower division clubs up in arms
MASERU — The Maseru District Football Association’s executive committee is living on borrowed time with affiliated clubs saying they are fed up with the incumbent...
Lesotho football behind schedule
MASERU — In case anyone has forgotten, Lesotho’s football is meant to be professional by 2014. But with only three years left to this deadline...
Tse Nala’s title hopes hang by a thread
MASERU — How times have changed! At this stage last year, Lioli were top of the league standings and largely expected to win a second...
Lioli swops pair for Bantu hitman
MASERU — Lioli outcasts Mohapi Ntobo and Brown Makobe have found a new home at Bantu after the two Vodacom Premier League sides sealed a...
Lekhanya demands M3 million from BNP
MASERU — Ousted Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Metsing Lekhanya is demanding M3 million which he says he lent to the party. Lekhanya, who was...
LCD leadership blasts petitions
MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) executive committee is on a charm offensive to clean its image ahead of a special conference which...
Dead bodies washed up in Leribe
HLOTSE — It was a horrific scene. Seven graves were washed away in a landslide in Leribe’s Sebothoane village on Monday afternoon. The landslide, caused...
‘Rented crowd pushed me out’
MASERU — Metsing Lekhanya’s reign as leader of the troubled Basotho National Party (BNP) came to an abrupt end on December 18, 2010. A vote...
Motorists struggle to register vehicles
MASERU — Thousands of people are battling to register and re-register vehicles because the traffic department is yet to replace the system which was destroyed...
Queen honours veteran teacher
MASERU — Veteran educationist Colin Macdonald has been awarded the Officer of the British Empire (OBE) title by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. The award, which...
Teenagers raped
MASERU — She woke up in the morning and realised she had been raped. But the problem was that she did not know who had...
New notes to start circulating in March
MASERU — Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) governor Dr Moeketsi Senaoana says the country’s new bank notes will start circulating in March. Senaoana made the...
Lesotho in tough draw
MASERU — Lesotho received a tough draw when they were drawn against hosts Libya, Egypt and Mali in the Caf African Youth Championship which kicks...
New player licensing system on the cards
MASERU — The Lesotho Football Association (Lefa) says it will implement a new licensing system for premier league players next season. The new season will...
Lesotho referees flunk fitness test
MASERU — Lesotho’s referees are struggling for fitness. This is according to results that came out at Setsoto Stadium on Sunday. At least 19 out...
Annointed successors a threat to democracy
LESOTHO’S political parties are certainly going through turbulence. It is only those who are politically blind who will oppose this statement. The political turbulence is...